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(So both halves manage to miss screening on those "dark winter nights" that Moffat claimed the delay was to allow the series to move to. And his "more Who than ever" actually turned out to be "one series in two years".)

The Anniversary Special (singular) doesn't shoot until (again) April.

(Anyone who was still holding out for any of Series 8 next year should really give up now.)

Meh, this seems to fit with my expectations. I'm assuming "An Adventure in Time and Space" is that thing Mark Gatiss is writing about the early days, but what's this "Doctor Who Revisited"? Since it's eleven 25 minute episodes, I'm guessing it's a new retrospective on each Doctor.

Mr Awe wrote:

^^ Wow, and the special is only 60 minutes?! They really dropped the ball on this, if this is true.

This doesn't really surprise me base on earlier reports, but it is a little disappointing, especially the length of the 50th anniversary special.

I am curious about Doctor Who Revisited. If it is indeed retrospectives with new interviews (and perhaps interwoven with clips from those who are no longer with us), then I'll be thrilled to see those episodes.

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It seems unlikely they wouldn't do one, those are always big events for BBC.

As are the series. I wonder where the money and runtime got used.

As I understand, the pla always was to hold season 8 back until 2014 and make 2013 something similar Tennant's gap year back in 2009. Even though we already had something similar with 2012.

I was expecting 90 mins too as 60 is a really ordinary length. They did 75 mins just a few years ago.

Reviewing the episode lengths, the only ones to have gone over 45 minutes:
The Christmas Invasion (60)
The Runaway Bride (60)
Last of the Time Lords (52)
Voyage of the Damned (72)
Partners in Crime (50)
Fires of Pompeii (50)
Turn Left (50)
Journey's End (65)
The Next Doctor (60)
Planet of the Dead (60)
The Waters of Mars (60)
The End of Time Part 1 (60)
The End of Time Part 2 (75)
The Eleventh Hour (65)
The Vampires of Venice (50)
The Pandorica Opens (50)
The Big Bang (55)
A Christmas Carol (60)
A Good Man Goes to War (50)
Let's Kill Hitler (50)
The God Complex (50)
The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe (60)
Asylum of the Daleks (50)
The Snowmen (60)

I am curious about Doctor Who Revisited. If it is indeed retrospectives with new interviews (and perhaps interwoven with clips from those who are no longer with us), then I'll be thrilled to see those episodes.

It just sounds like that special David Tennant narrated before becoming the doctor

I am curious about Doctor Who Revisited. If it is indeed retrospectives with new interviews (and perhaps interwoven with clips from those who are no longer with us), then I'll be thrilled to see those episodes.

It just sounds like that special David Tennant narrated before becoming the doctor

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"Eccleston was a tiger and Tennant was, well, Tigger. Smith [is] an uncoordinated housecat who pretends that he meant to do that after falling off a piece of furniture." - Lynne M. Thomas